2006: 'Maybe Sprout Wings'

The loneliest people in the whole wide world. Today's episode is about ‘Maybe Sprout Wings,’ Frankie Lymon, the ‘high lonesome sound’ of Appalachian folk music, and a depressive episode at the Trinity LABAN Centre.

Show notes

Interviews:
Tom Lynch, ‘Only the Lonely: Mountain Goats man John Darnielle sings a sad story,’ New City Music, 2006: https://music.newcity.com/2006/09/14/only-the-lonely-mountain-goats-man-john-darnielle-sings-a-sad-story/
Andy Downing, ‘Mountain Goats' Darnielle opens up in `Get Lonely.'’ Chicago Tribune, 2006 [paywalled]:https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-09-08-0609080026-story.html
Craig Wright, ‘Mountain Goats' John Darnielle on Chasing Death and Dressing Goth in Portland,’ Willamette Week, 2017: https://www.wweek.com/music/2017/05/31/mountain-goats-john-darnielle-on-chasing-death-and-dressing-goth-in-portland/
Steven Hyden, ‘Celebration Rock.’ ‘20th Century Boss, Part 7: “Tunnel of Love” with John Darnielle.’ Spotify podcast, 2018: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0g1WGiwnjKKcGaYRnKPOuG?si=2b751fe1b0f84e03&nd=1
Craig Jenkins, ‘Genuinely John Darnielle The Mountain Goats’ frontman on keeping the faith, loving the occult, and sad songwriting.’ Vulture, 2022 [paywalled]:https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats-bleed-out.html

Live shows:
Live at Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, on 2005-06-20, taped by Peter Sohriakoff: https://archive.org/details/tmg2005-06-20
Live at Club Europa, Brooklyn, on 2006-09-29, taped by Peter Sohriakoff: https://archive.org/details/tmg2006-09-29/
Live at the Gothic Theater in Englewood, Colorado on 2017-09-16, taped by LMGB Tapes: https://archive.org/details/tmg2017-09-16/
Live at Boulder Theater, Colorado on 2018-09-13, taped by Lance Stack, feat. ‘Duane Allman Slept Here’: https://archive.org/details/tmg2018-09-13.mk4.flac24
Live at Aladdin Theater, Portland, on 2019-09-10, taped by Liz Hamilton: https://archive.org/details/tmg2019-09-10

Web resources:
Japanese liner notes to Get Lonely, featuring Akao Mika interview and translated by Andrew Fazzari, on the Annotated Mountain Goats: https://annotatedtmg.org/mirror/gl-japanese-liner.html
Witchsong, ‘I Don’t Wanna Die In Here: The Mountain Goats in Chicago,’ 2015: https://medium.com/witchsong/i-dont-wanna-die-in-here-the-mountain-goats-in-chicago-df8f1044c75d
Amanda Petrusich, ‘The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound.” The New Yorker, 2015 [paywalled]: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-discovery-of-roscoe-holcomb-and-the-high-lonesome-sound
Kara Kundert, ‘50 STATES OF FOLK: The Enduring Power of Kentucky’s High Lonesome Sound.’ No Depression, 2020: https://www.nodepression.com/50-states-of-folk-the-enduring-power-of-kentuckys-high-lonesome-sound/
Sandra Brennan, Rovi artist biography for Buell Kazee: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6tcyQ0ycaAsYbjhoDOt1jd?si=hwcOOaKKQ9WHHyWuJTv6lg&nd=1
Pretty Panicks Press postcard, from an art project by Sara Wintz, featuring the first draft of Moon Over Goldsboro: https://annotatedtmg.org/mirror/moon-postcard.pdf
Henry David Thoreau on Solitude, from ‘Walden’: https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/
Stuart Heritage, ‘This Country: perfect, horrifying TV for anyone who grew up in a village.’ The Guardian, 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/22/this-country-bbc-perfect-horrifying-tv-for-anyone-who-grew-up-in-a-village

YouTube videos:
‘Seabreeze,’ by Frankie Lymon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yo4UE-p864
‘Brilliant Disguise,’ by The Extra Glenns on 1995-09-21 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL. Uploaded by notasfarwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2qMQJaRHak
‘Sickbed Blues,’ by Skip James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgcpuhvjNuw
‘The Song Colloquially referred to as "Nikki oh Nikki" by the Mountain Goats,’ uploaded by Proud Heretic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAhXEopqHw

Books:
Franklin Bruno, Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces (Bloomsbury, 2005).